[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#428665: network-manager: group interfaces to allow roaming

[Adrian von Bidder]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.4-6
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

At one site I often work, we have the wired ethernet and the wireless 
network sharing the same IP space (i.e. no routing done.)  Now to allow 
seamless roaming, it would be nice to be able to tell network-manager to 
just keep the IP address when going to wired to wireless and back, so any 
connected services would retain the connection.

Obviously, this would fall into the category "expert configuration" - I'd 
need to manually set up groups of wired and wireless networks.  I'm also 
unsure about how to play nicely with the DHCP server: perhaps just change 
the MAC on the new interface to be the same as that of the old one?  Or 
perhaps just keep the IP a bit longer than the lease, then try to see if we 
can get it from the dhcp server?  Or forge a DHCPRELEASE with the old MAC 
as sender, then try to get that IP for the new interface?  Not sure if that 
would even work, it's just a wacky idea...

cheers
-- vbi


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